Catalog - Virginia Intermont College

Programs of Study 221
204-CONCEPTS OF MODERN MATHEMATICS II. Prerequisite: Mathematics 202.
Elementary probability and statistics, consumer mathematics, metric system,
brief introduction to geometry.
Three hours per week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered spring semester.
205-PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS. Prerequisite: Mathematics 140 or permission
of instructor based upon placement test score. Measures of central tendency
and variation, elementary probability theory, important continuous and discrete
distributions, linear regression, sampling distributions, estimation, and an
introduction to hypothesis testing.
Three hours a week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered fall and spring
semesters.
206-EUCLIDEAN AND NON-EUCLIDEAN GEOMETRIES: A HANDSON APPROACH.
Prerequisite: Mathematics 202 and Mathematics 204 or permission of instructor.
The course includes, but is not limited to, plane geometry, solid geometry, area,
volume, transformations, tessellations, similarity. Topics from Non-Euclidean
geometry, such as, geometry on a sphere are also included.
Three hours per week. Credit, three semester hours. Offered as needed.
251-CALCULUS I. Prerequisite: Mathematics 152 or permission of instructor
based upon placement test score. This course includes a study of limits, rates
of change, continuity, differentiation and integration of elementary functions,
related rates, maxima and minima, Rolle’s Theorem, the mean value theorem,
and various applications.
Four lecture hours a week. Credit, four semester hours. Offered alternate fall
semesters.
252-CALCULUS II. Prerequisite: Mathematics 251. A continuation of Mathematics
251. The course includes the fundamental theorem, techniques of integration,
and numerical methods for definite integrals, and various applications .
Four hours a week. Credit, four semester hours. Offered as needed.
253-CALCULUS III. Prerequisite: Mathematics 252. A continuation of Mathematics
252 with infinite series, power series, conic sections, plane curves, polar
coordinates, space geometry and vectors, dot products, cross products, and triple
products, vector analysis of curves.
Four hours a week. Credit, four semester hours. Offered as needed.
311-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Prerequisite: Mathematics 253 or equivalent.
First order differential equations. Second and higher order linear differential
equations. Laplace Transforms Systems of differential equations. Practical
applications and numerical solutions will be emphasized.
Four hours a week. Credit, four semester hours. Offered as needed.
Virginia Intermont College 2012–2013 College Catalog